Under-21 soccer players, life-altering legal cases, the true cases taken on by Canadian detectives and adaptations of three Canadian novels are among the new series coming to CBC’s broadcast lineup during the 2017-18 season. Familiar faces returning to Canadian screens this year include Kristin Kreuk, Allan Hawco, Paul Gross, Charlotte Sullivan, Enuka Okuma and Eric Johnson.

Prior to becoming a television critic and owner of TV, Eh?, Greg David was a critic for TV Guide Canada, the country's most trusted source for TV news. He has interviewed television actors, actresses and behind-the-scenes folks from hundreds of television series from Canada, the U.S. and internationally. He is a podcaster, public speaker, weekly radio guest and educator, and past member of the Television Critics Association.

More due to money. Unfortunately. But the fact is you have to build a show that you hope viewers will catch on to somewhere around ep 8 (specially against the US marketing machine). These new shows will already be wrapped by then

More episodes of less shows. The way financing works, even if a short run show caught on you couldn’t take advantage of it because of the long delay in securing money to shoot more episodes. By the time you were ready to begin a second series of episodes the fire would have gone out

The market in the UK isn’t identical. The most popular networks dominate with homegrown programming. They don’t have a large group of people immediately apprehensive about watching anything made in their own country like we do.

I don’t believe ‘immediately apprehensive’ is a fair assessment of today’s Canadians. This isn’t the 70s or 80s. With production values steadily rising over the past fifteen years or so, the quality of Canadian TV has never been better and easily rivals American TV. Canadians are becoming more and more invested in, and proud of, homegrown programming. Now, if only the CRTC would start backing Canadian media we’d be golden.

I think you missed the boat on Last Man Standing. It was cancelled due to its conservative nature. The liberals at ABC just couldn’t take it anymore. Just look at the backlash of fans who are boycotting the network. We hope perhaps FOX will pick it up.

Every time there is a decent show It is cancelled. I do not understand how any of us consumers can be expected to keep up with series that are 6-10 episodes long And it is not just CBC that is doing this. Too many choices. Almost like the world we live in where in a blink of an eye technology changes. Goodbye Pure. Great show. Great acting. And Ozark is on now on Netflix with a very similar story line. At least series are staying on Netflix so it is worth investing time to watch them